“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
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Napoleon Hill
“But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically everyone must conquer.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger of faster man,
But soon or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!”
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Napoleon Hill
“affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.”
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Napoleon Hill
“But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Napoleon Hill
“Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.”
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Napoleon Hill
